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In these troubled times we need good poets more than ever | Christina Patterson

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We’re bombarded by instant thoughts on everything. Luckily I’ve seen the future of poetry – and it’s bright

“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off,” said the American poet Emily Dickinson, “I know that is poetry.” I’m not sure that’s exactly what happened to me last Sunday, but it wasn’t that far off. It’s 50 years since Ted Hughes started Poetry International. It’s nearly 30 years since it was resurrected on the South Bank Centre in London by the poet Maura Dooley. I worked with her on the festival in the 90s for several years. We met and heard some of the greatest voices in 20th-century poetry, from Hughes and Seamus Heaney to Derek Walcott, Sharon Olds and Octavio Paz.

Related: Poem of the week: Ay, But Can Ye? by Vladimir Mayakovsky

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